HELP!! Partition Magic has destroyed everything!

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If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!

Chris
 
cjm said:
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!
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Restore from backup. Of course you did a backup before using partition
magic, right?

Michael
 
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!

Chris
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Never use Partition Magic on a drive with valuable data
before making backups. Partition Magic even suggests this
in either the program or documentation.

Run Partition Magic again to see what it finds.
You have left out some info, did you start it up then let it
run while sleeping so it's a mystery what happened? Have
you rebooted the system yet (if not, do so)?

Which Windows OS? If 2K/XP, go into Disk Management and see
what shows up. Do NOT write to the drive(s) if you might be
inclined to try running some sort of data recovery program
to scavenge for lost data... but you would need another
drive(s) to copy off whatever such a program could find.
Ontrack's EasyRecovery is one such program but it's a bit
pricey, I"m not sure what is the best bang for the buck...
Powerquest did at one point release one version of Lost &
Found as freeware (gave away free keys to any/all), though I
don't know what it's capabilities or limitations are. You
might Google search for the best product and pricing on this
type of app.
 
cjm said:
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!

Chris
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PM in the wrong hands is lethal and renowned for it.

toy
 
For future attempts, you could check out DFSEE (www.dfsee.com.)


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However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!

Chris
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A quick google on PqRP gives many links, including this one.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/lite/t-77451.html

"Sure enough, the G: is now a PGRP file system.
And yes, I've read up on that... I understand that it's a Poerquest
invention that prevents Windows from writing to the partition (Windows
won't write to a file system it doesn't understand) so that the user
can have time to recover the lost data.
I've also read that it is not unusual for PM to take a long time to
complete tasks, and that I should have tried the NUMLOCK key to see if
the system was still responding.... but it's too late for that now. "

HTH.
 
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!

Chris
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Bet you didn't buy it ;-)



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Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!
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Like what? You'll know better than to do something this foolish in the
future?
 
cjm said:
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!
Click to expand...

If you're in the UK try 08457 90 90 90, or log on to their web-site;
http://www.samaritans.org.uk/
 
cjm said:
If anyone could help me with this I would be highly grateful!!!

Last night I used Partition Magic (NEVER again) to rearrange a 447 Gb RAID
drive so that instead of being one partition it is in fact the following:

partition 1: 10 MB
partition 2: 10 GB
partition 3: 5 GB
partition 4: 432 GB

However, I woke up this morning to find that the whole drive has been
replaced with a Yellow "PqRP" partition, and windows can not see it at
all!!!

Please tell me how to recify this, as losing everything has very, very
disasterous consequences!

Chris
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I boot from a LIVE CD of Knoppix3.6. Then, I mount the drives, and use
QTParted to look at, move, and re-arrange partitions, on the fly, in
minutes!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1347661,00.html

If you are lucky, you could re-set the partitions to the original sizes,
and recover all the data!

http://knopper.net/knoppix

And, help is here, at one of these 630+ LUGs: http://lugww.counter.li.org
 
got the same problem, and after booting in dos and loading pm8 from
dos command line it shows the partition as being a PQrP partitition
all right but it has all the operations grayed out except delete and
format. boy is that helpfull !!so not only does pm blow chunks to re
partition your harddrive, it wont undo what it did. i guess im
wondering why they even load from dos if it doesnt do anything.

not ever going to use pm again. ive heard acronis is the way to go.
 
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